"Mike Hall - MVP" <mikehall@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> "aa" <a@microsoft.ru> wrote in message
> news:OmmWOhk%23JHA.1336@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> On a year old HP Pavilion/Vista I would like to remove Vista, format the
>> disk and install w2k or XP. But HP support refused all the support in
>> this
>> respect saying they are not sure I will find all XP/w2k drivers for this
>> machine.
>> Has anybody here had difficulties finding XP/w2k drivers for relatively
>> new
>> machines, and for HP Pavilion in particular?[/color]
>
> If HP doesn't think that drivers exist, and they are the people
> responsible for creating said drivers, you are going to have to stay with
> Vista.[/color]

Maybe he should post the model and then we can find the links?

Drivers almost certainly exist for XP. Yours is the line of a MS Droid.

I have yet to see a COTs PC that could not run XP.